Rumble Tumble

FIRST VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD EDITION, NOVEMBER 2009

Copyright © 1998 by Joe R. Lansdale

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by the Mysterious Press, a division of Warner Books, Inc., New York, in 1998.

Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage Crime/Black Lizard and colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lansdale, Joe R., 1951–

Rumble tumble / by Joe R. Lansdale.

—1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-307-77268-8

1. Collins, Hap (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Pine, Leonard (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 4. Southwestern states—Fiction. 5. Automobile travel—Fiction. 6. Middle-aged men—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3562.A557R8 2009

813′.54—dc22

2009027229

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